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Tell me your tales of workplace stupidity. Either your own or others
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:27, 115 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

Especially the patients. Especially the ones who self diagnose and tell me what drugs to prescribe them. Wikipedia is fucking awesome.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:32, Reply)

Next question.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:34, Reply)

Lol!
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:37, Reply)

Starts incurring additional tax charge at 50k, completely obliterated by the tax charge at 60k.
Easy enough to avoid the extra tax charge innit.
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( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:44, Reply)

Make a gross pension contribution to bring net relevant earnings under the threshold. You also benefit from the increased tax relief.
You thick cunt.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:51, Reply)

( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:55, Reply)

so you're not actually avoiding it.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:06, Reply)

Swings and roundabouts eh.
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( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:12, Reply)

A large, and quite deliberately unadvertised portion of my job is the supply of commercial heating spares to maintenance companies who look after commercial buildings and offices etc. We have a website which is not on search engines, and if it is stumbled upon is password protected. Why I receive emails from people we don't deal with and have never been in contact with asking for light bulbs and rotary washing lines is a mystery to me.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:39, Reply)

:o(
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:43, Reply)

Get Winders to fit it for me
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:50, Reply)

At least 4 or 5 a month, generally along the lines of 'I've seen this 3D printing and I'd like to start a business - I can't tell you what it is unless you sign this non-disclosure agreement'. Once signed they come back with 'My idea is that I will scan wedding photos and make models of the Bride and Groom'.
It normally takes me an hour to get it through their thick skulls that:-
a) A photograph is 2D, therefore...
b) A SCAN of a photograph is also 2D so....
c) You have no 3D data to make a 3D model so...
d) IT WON'T FUCKING WORK YOU RETARD.*
The second type also boil my piss.
'How much would a 3D printer cost, I want to make models like I've seen in the magazines, y'know, multiple colours, multiple materials, anything up to about 500mm square'. I ask if they have 3D CAD, generally they answer in the negative. Once they're told they need 3D CAD (at about £3k) and the machine will be in excess of £250k, plus they'll need maintenance package at about 10% of the machine cost per year, plus the materials they ALWAYS come back with 'But, the machines in Maplins are about six hundred quid'. I find it hard to be polite.
*I wish I could actually say this but I grit my teeth and wish them well with their endeavours - then I direct them to my competitors
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:43, Reply)

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( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:09, Reply)

They are, by definition, idiots and more often than not, mental.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:58, Reply)

I only went and created the build XML wrong THREE TIMES. I'm an idiot haha
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:01, Reply)

AND added arclib folder and a Java classpath prefix.
WITHOUT TELLING US
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:03, Reply)

( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:07, Reply)

fuck me this stuff is stupidly complicated with interdependencies everywhere.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:35, Reply)

After a five-minute discussion, during which they got increasingly agitated, they concluded that I should probably just send them the template and the working instructions.
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( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:10, Reply)

Staff member in question's stupidity and refusal to do even the tiniest bit of housekeeping is the main reason we are unable to run a proper backup system, which would have been quite handy to have today.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:15, Reply)

who are insisting that we told them NOT to take nightly backups.
Err, of course we did
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:30, Reply)

There are some scally's on the sales team and a few 'bredrens' but they all work competently.
One of the Solicitor firms we work with are a bit hard work. constant automated emails from them about cases and if we ask them for a summary of work it seems an impossible task.
I have even sent them template spreadsheets to make their lives easier and still they are baffled.
Ho hum. Keeps it fresh I suppose.
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( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)

on his house with various heavy duty electrical equipment, remarks that we must be using a lot of power. With that he goes in the room and swaps the light bulb for a low wattage job. WTF?
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:44, Reply)

Took them an hour to work out that the shower head was higher than the level of water in the system and that pumping water vertically is hard.
( , Thu 6 Feb 2014, 12:11, Reply)
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